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Les papillons [selections]
- Title
- Les papillons [selections] [graphic].
- Author
- Varin, Amédée, 1818-1883.
- Publication
- [1852]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Corbay, V. (Victor), 1815-
- Description
- 3 prints : wood engraving, steel engraving, color; 27 x 17 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Three leaves from Les papillons, ou metamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air par Amédée Varin, texte par Eu[gène] Nus et An[tony] Meray, published in Paris by Gabriel de Gonet; originally issued in parts. This collection includes the title page, which is a hand-colored wood engraving drawn by Varin and engraved by Victor Corbay, and two leaves, respectively headed Le triomphe de cypris and Vertu médicale du boléro, both illustrated with hand-colored steel engravings by Varin. The title page depicts a winding procession of butterflies with folded wings and other insects, some of them anthropomorphized. Le triomphe de cypris and Vertu médicale du boléro respectively depict male and female human figures with butterfly wings and antennae. The female figure wears a costume similar to those worn by ballerinas of the period.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Wood engravings.
- Note
- The title page is signed A. Varin del., V. Corbay. The illustrations on the pages headed Le triomphe de cypris and Vertu médicale du boléro are signed Varin.
- Source (note)
- Estate of Leon Danielian
- Biography (note)
- Amédée Varin, sometimes called Pierre Amédée Varin, was a French draftsman, painter, and engraver. He appears to be best known today for his works of whimsy. In addition to Les papillons, he also published L'empire des légumes (ca. 1850), a social satire about a world of vegetable people.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Var A Pap 1-3
- OCLC
- 824999880
- Author
- Varin, Amédée, 1818-1883.
- Title
- Les papillons [selections] [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1852]
- Biography
- Amédée Varin, sometimes called Pierre Amédée Varin, was a French draftsman, painter, and engraver. He appears to be best known today for his works of whimsy. In addition to Les papillons, he also published L'empire des légumes (ca. 1850), a social satire about a world of vegetable people.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Estate of Leon Danielian, 1997.
- Added Author
- Corbay, V. (Victor), 1815- Engraver
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Var A Pap 1-3